Researcher

Title

• Clinical assistant professor, Department of Pediatrics, Université de Montréal (2023)
• Staff Pediatrician, General Pediatrics Division, CHU Sainte-Justine (2022)
• Clinician scientist, CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center (2022)

• MMSc, Medical Education (Harvard, 2022)
• Residency training, General pediatrics (Université de Montréal, 2020)
• M.D. (Université de Montréal, 2016)
• B.B.A. (HEC Montréal, 2008)

His research activities focus on organizational aspects in medical education. Namely, he is interested in psychological safety of learners in the clinical learning environment. His work aims at optimizing interactions on the clinical teaching units and on the wards, in order to improve learners’ educational experience, while fostering patient care.

• Organizational issues in medical education
• Ethics in medical education
• Psychological safety
• Clinical learning environment
• Complex care in children

Career Summary

Dr. Thibault is a staff pediatrician at CHU Sainte-Justine. After completing his MD and his residency training in general pediatrics at the Université de Montréal, he completed a master's degree in medical education at Harvard Medical School in 2022. Before entering medical school, he completed his training in business school at HEC Montréal, specializing in finance and applied economics.

Both in business school and during his medical training, Dr. Thibault was interested in higher education issues and perspectives. He has been involved in several academic positions, including President of the AEEMUM (Université de Montréal’s medical students’ society) in 2013-2014, member of the Faculty Council from 2016 to 2019, as Chief Resident of the Pediatrics Program in 2018-2019 and as a member of the Dean's Nomination Committee in 2019-2020. He is currently a member of the committee in charge of renewing the MD program content and training, and a member of the MD Program Admission Committee. He is also in charge, with a colleague, of the pediatric resident’s continuity clinic in CHU Sainte-Justine.

Dr. Thibault is a member and collaborator of the CPASS (Université de Montréal’s hub for health professions education, innovation and research).

Awards and Distinctions

• Best oral presentation. Project: Psychological safety in the clinical learning environment : Exploring the discrepancies between faculty members and trainees’ perspectives and experiences in a pediatric residency program in Canada. 8th Annual Harvard Medical School Master’s Programs Research Symposium, Boston, MA. (2022/03)
• Thérèse Côté-Boileau award, from Quebec’s Pediatricians Association (APQ) (2020)
• Best oral presentation (Resident section) Projec : Assessing the Perspectives and Educational Needs for Parents of Children with Bronchiolitis. Congrès conjoint de la recherche des résidents et fellows en pédiatrie et spécialités pédiatriques McGill - Université de Montréal (2019/04)
• Healthy Generations Foundation Award from the Canadian Pediatric Society, Pediatric resident advocacy. Project: Providing Education and Guidance on Bronchiolitis and Respiratory Viral Illnesses in Community Settings (2019/03)

Presentations

• 2023/02: Thibault LP, La sécurité psychologique sur les unités d’enseignement clinique : De la théorie à la pratique. Conférence sur invitation. Midi-scientifique du CPASS et du GirCoPro.
• 2022/06: Thibault LP, La sécurité psychologique dans l’environnement clinique d’apprentissage : une étude exploratoire des perspectives des résidents et des pédiatres sur les unités d’enseignement au CHU Sainte‐ Justine. Conférence scientifique du Centre de recherche, CHU Sainte-Justine, Université de Montréal.
• 2022/03: Thibault LP, Psychological safety in the clinical learning environment : Exploring the discrepancies between faculty members and trainees’ perspectives and experiences in a pediatric residency program in Canada. 8th Annual Harvard Medical School Master’s Programs Research Symposium, Boston, MA.
• 2021/05: Thibault LP, Luu TM, Huot C, Cardinal G, Carriere B, Du Pont A, Bourque CJ, Moussa A, Les résidents comme sujets de recherche : respecter le délicat équilibre entre l’enseignement aux résidents et la contribution à l’avancement de la recherche en éducation médicale, Congrès international francophone de pédagogie en sciences de la santé, organisé par la SIFEM (Strasbourg, France. Présentation virtuelle).
• 2021/05: Thibault LP L’enseignement supérieur en mode virtuel & Mieux comprendre la sécurité psychologique en éducation médicale : une exploration des enjeux sur les unités d’enseignement clinique en pédiatrie. Conférence sur invitation. Journée annuelle de la recherche du CPASS.

Publications

Thibault LP, Mitchell GA, Parisien B, Hamel P, Blanchard AC. An Infant with Bilateral Keratitis: From Infectious to Genetic Diagnosis. Am J Case Rep. 2022 Nov 30;23:e937967.

Thibault LP, Claude Julie Bourque, Thuy Mai Luu, Celine Huot, Genevieve Cardinal, Benoit Carriere, Amelie Dupont-Thibodeau, Ahmed Moussa; Residents as Research Subjects: Balancing Resident Education and Contribution to Advancing Educational Innovations. J Grad Med Educ 1 April 2022; 14 (2): 191–200.

Thibault LP, Gariépy-Assal, L, Moussa, A, L’enseignement de la médecine au temps de la COVID-19 : le cas d’espèce de la pédiatrie, Pédagogie Médicale 21 (4) 229-231 (2020).

Piché-Renaud PP, Thibault LP, Essouri S, Chainey A, Thériault C, Bernier G, Gaucher N. Parents' perspectives, information needs and healthcare preferences when consulting for their children with bronchiolitis: A qualitative study. Acta Paediatr. Oct , 2020.

Thibault, LP ; Rousseau, E., Five things to know about dog bites, Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ), 2018 Jan 29;190(4):E113.

Thibault, LP ; Mesny, A., Groupe AEG Inc. : les aléas du modèle d’affaires d’une petite entreprise d’escomte et d’affacturage, La Revue internationale de cas en gestion (RICG),  vol. 11, no 4, sept. 2013.